Top 100 Choose Them Quotes
#1. Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the sea fearing man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny
Carl Schurz
#2. There are good fathers and bad fathers, good sons and bad sons, good husbands and bad ones, but great friends are all alike. We choose them and keep them. We aren't bound to them by anything but love.
Sarah Manguso
#3. Realize now the power that your words command if you simply choose them wisely.
Tony Robbins
#4. For things remain possible, even if God does not choose them. Indeed, even if God does not will something to exist, it is possible for it to exist, since, by its nature, it could exist if God were to will it to exist.
Gottfried Leibniz
#5. I'm very grateful for the people that I work with, because I don't get to choose them.
Don Iveson
#6. Is all ordained? Foreknowledge is not fate, and we may choose our paths, yet fate says we may not choose them. So if fate is real, do we have a choice?
Bernard Cornwell
#7. I think most novelists I know, certainly including me, feel the novels choose them rather than vice-versa.
Steve Erickson
#8. If you are shopping for common stocks, choose them the way you would buy groceries, not the way you would buy perfume.
Benjamin Graham
#9. Negative thoughts stick around because we believe them, not because we want them or choose them.
Andrew J. Bernstein
#10. Rather than freedom from traditional constraints, then, girls were free to "choose" them. Yet, the line between "get to" and "have to" blurs awfully fast.
Peggy Orenstein
#11. Passengers want options, and when they have options, like passenger rail, they choose them.
Anthony Foxx
#12. The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
George Eliot
#13. I don't put any thought into the footballs after I choose them. When you're out there playing in front of 70,000 people, like a home crowd, you don't think about it. You're just reacting to the game.
Tom Brady
#14. You may very well have good reasons for resentment, frustration and anger. But that doesn't mean those negative responses are good for you, or that you must choose them.
Ralph Marston
#15. The Jews were continually warned not to look for the reason for their adoption elsewhere than in God's free favor. He had seen fit to choose them; this alone was the source of their security.
John Calvin
#16. Writers do not choose their subjects; their subjects choose them.
Erica Jong
#17. The words you write will outlive you. Choose them wisely.
Kira Hawke
#18. A game. That's all life is, that's all it feels like. Everyone waiting for their turn to spin the bottle or for the bottle to finally choose them. Who would you rather is real. We can be erased, that's real too.
Alexis Bass
#19. Your Mentors in life are important, so choose them wisely
Robert Kiyosaki
#20. Again, it is for the sake of the soul that goods external and goods of the body are eligible at all, and all wise men ought to choose them for the sake of the soul, and not the soul for the sake of them.
Aristotle.
#21. Our stories are so fundamental to us that it's easy to forget that we choose them.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#22. For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not.
Learned Hand
#23. Holy habits are that: the disciplines, the routines by which we stay alive and focused on Him. At first we choose them and carry them out; after a while they are part of who we are. And they carry us.
Mark Buchanan
#24. This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.
Charles Duhigg
#25. Difficult relationships come into our lives for a reason. No one would choose them, certainly. But if we let them, they can teach us how to be flexible with others and more forgiving.
Joan Bauer
#26. Stories, we all have stories. Nature does not tell stories, we do. We find ourselves in them, make ourselves in them, choose ourselves in them. If we are the stories we tell ourselves, we had better choose them well.
James Orbinski
#27. We are defined by our enemies - but also we can choose them. Make an enemy of hatred, Jorg. Do that and you could be a great man, but more importantly, maybe a happy one. There's
Mark Lawrence
#28. Yet the home courses are where you spend dozens to hundreds of hours a year. You must choose them well.
Joe Henderson
#29. I don't choose my friends based on how they treat each other, I choose them based on how they treat me.
Scheana Marie
#30. In our hyper-secular world, worship is still inevitable. But it is vital to remember that our gods don't choose us, we choose them.
John Green
#31. If you're going to choose your friends, you better choose them well, because when you look at your friends, you're looking at a mirror reflection. You're looking at you; you are looking at you.
Paul Washer
#33. My characters are the family I would have if I could choose them myself.
Julie Thomas
#34. No, fate is difficult. Is all ordained? Foreknowledge is not fate, and we may choose our paths, yet fate says we may not choose them. So if fate is real, do we have choice?
Bernard Cornwell
#35. The power and magic of music lie in its intangibility and its limitlessness. It suggests images, but leaves us free to choose them and to accommodate them to our pleasure.
Wanda Landowska
#36. Political parties are like religions that way. They choose us even more than we choose them. Very few people actually conduct a comparative study before they declare "I'm a Republican" or "I'm a Democrat,
Charlie Crist
#37. The whole point about T-shirts is you choose them in the morning according to your mood, like crystals, or aromatherapy oils.
Sophie Kinsella
#38. I believe that the 'love of your life' is just a person that you chose. You choose them because you believe that they're it.
Dawn Lanuza
#39. The thing about families is that you rarely get to choose them since you tend to be born into one and be a part of it. The family, on the other hand, tends to choose you and become a part of you, whether or not you grow to like it or will yourself to want.
Tristan Wood
#40. Your mother rolls her eyes at the cat lapping grapefruit juice, says, Everything that comes into this house is crazy - whether we choose them for that or they get that way, I don't know.
Mary Karr
#41. Your words have the power of life and death. Choose them wisely.
Orrin Woodward
#42. You can awaken each day to obligations you never chose - or you can decide now to choose them.
Robert Breault
#43. Sisters and brothers just happen, we don't get to choose them, but they become one of our most cherish relationships.
Wes Adamson
#44. I don't think it's an accident who our parents are; I believe we choose them. So maybe I chose my parents in order to effect change.
Patti Davis
#45. You don't let many people behind that wall of yours do you?"
"No I don't because basically people are shit. They have let me down over and over so now I choose them very carefully."
"You have let Yvan in," he pointed out.
"Yvan's different.
Amy Kuivalainen
#46. The reality is that everybody makes mistakes. The issue isn't whether you will make them, it's what you will do about them. It's whether you will choose the path of humility and courage or the path of ego and pride.
Stephen Covey
#47. Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.
Lord Chesterfield
#48. Remember you don't own people, let them decide, choose and live. There is no inferiority and superiority; it is just your crazy imagination.
M.F. Moonzajer
#49. All ethical people strive to choose "right" over "easy" when confronted by situations that force them to choose one or the other.
Derrick Bell
#50. You can choose to live your lives as demonstrations of your highest and grandest beliefs, rather than as denials of them.
Neale Donald Walsch
#51. I do find it odd people choose to do stuff that makes them look like crazy Hollywood faces, but I've got zero judgment.
Julie Bowen
#52. Your first mistake might be assuming that people are rational.
Your second mistake could be assuming that people are eager for change.
And the marketer's third mistake is assuming that once someone knows things the way you know them, they will choose what you chose.
Seth Godin
#53. Children would struggle desperately to feel love for their parents. Rather than hate a parent, in fact, they'd choose to hate themselves. Love and violence became so intertwined for them that when they grew up and got into relationships, only hysteria could set their hearts at ease.
Ryu Murakami
#54. If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent your children from learning about it and letting them draw their own conclusions.
Bill Nye
#55. The choosing of a role is so difficult for me. That's the real challenge: to choose the role, not to do the role. Once you've chosen them, the process is much easier.
Isabelle Huppert
#56. He woos, he confronts, he delivers, he heals, he shoots straight, and then he uses intrigue. He lives out before them the most compelling view of God, shows them an incredibly attractive holiness while shattering the religious glaze. But still, he lets them walk away if they choose.
John Eldredge
#57. People who make decisions based merely on what seems most advisable to them will inevitably choose something inferior to God's best. Jesus, the ultimate model for the Christian life, did not rely on His own best thinking, but depended completely on His heavenly Father for wisdom in everything.
Henry Blackaby
#58. People mess up, you know? But you can't see past it. It's like you choose one thing about them - the worst thing - and say, 'That's who they are,' and ignore the rest of it. Why not choose the best thing about them instead? Or the thing they do the most?
Sarah Skilton
#59. Don't wait for your employees to seek you out. Choose to be assertive and go to them first.
Barry Banther
#60. I think if the copyright regime focuses on the people we are supposed to be helping, the artists and creators, and builds a system that gives them the freedom to choose and to protect and to be rewarded for their creativity, then we will have the right focus.
Lawrence Lessig
#61. I like both potatoes and rice. You can do a lot with both of them. But if I could eat only one carbohydrate for the rest of my life, I wouldn't choose bread, potatoes or even noodles. I'd go for rice instead; I eat more of that than anything else.
Nobu Matsuhisa
#62. Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.
Tammin Sursok
#63. I look at what I have as a challenge and I could list a whole bunch of different challenges. And I choose not to be daunted by any of them.
Justin Trudeau
#64. Words matter, he tells them and us, and we have a choice to use them for good or for ill. We can choose to be boastful, mouth off a snide comment, fire a well-placed jab. Or we can let our words be a reflection of God's grace, so the words that echo are of peace and healing, not brokenness and pain.
Richelle Thompson
#65. I'm interested in how we define things by how we choose to observe them, and how everywhere in our lives, and in every moment we experience, there are forces at work that we don't fully understand. Couple this curiosity with a love of portraiture painting, and that's how this project was born.
Oliver Jeffers
#66. Only children simply accept the fact that their parents have the right to make choices for them. Even disobedient children never question the fact that their parents have that right. They may choose to flout the rules, but they don't question their parents' right to make those rules.
The Mirror Of Maybe
#67. ... if the majority of men cannot know what is good for them, each for himself, how can they know what is good for others by proxy? If they are to be controlled by specialists, how and by what standard can they choose the specialist?
Ayn Rand
#68. I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.
Juliette Binoche
#69. There are some things we can't choose, but in being present we can choose how we want to relate to them
Tara Brach
#70. Women are racing all the time to try to have a perfect house and perfect kids and be a perfect cook. Men, somehow, for whatever reason, seem to be better able to pick and choose, to focus on things they like and that are important to them, and let the other things go.
Debora Spar
#71. Don't we all manipulate people? Even if we openly ask them to make a choice, don't we try to frame it so they'll choose as we think they should?
Orson Scott Card
#72. With so few clothes to choose from, getting dressed was no quarrelsome effort. It was almost an argument for not acquiring more blouses and skirts, jumpers and jackets, else how much time would be lost in dividing and conquering them?
Sarah Jane Stratford
#73. Be a good reading role model. Show kids what you like to read, what you don't like to read, how you choose what you read. Let them see you reading.
Jon Scieszka
#74. You choose the wrong career, select the wrong mortgage or fail to save for retirement, markets do not correct those failings. In fact, quite the opposite often happens. It is much easier to make money by catering to consumers' biases than by trying to correct them.
Anonymous
#75. When you are in a jackal environment, never give them the power to submit or rebel. We want to teach this to children very early: Never lose track that you are always free to choose. Don't allow institutions to determine what you do.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#76. Everybody is born with a little bit of writer in them. We all come with the desire to work hard to see our creations come to life on the page. But it is those who choose to do something about this passion that has been ignited inside of them that are true writers.
Brian A. McBride
#77. I choose to rise up out of that storm and see that in moments of desperation, fear, and helplessness, each of us can be a rainbow of hope, doing what we can to extend ourselves in kindness and grace to one another. And I know for sure that there is no them - there's only us.
Oprah Winfrey
#78. It would be unjust toward children to introduce them to Christian teaching and existence only as little pagans and catechumens, in order to leave it up to them to choose the Faith on their own responsibility at a point in time difficult to determine.
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
#79. Maybe I only think everyone wants to be a writer because the friends I naturally choose are people who love books. People who love books sooner or later dream of writing them. It's a natural response to stimuli.
Ellen Gilchrist
#80. When you choose a man who thinks eight seconds is a long time, perhaps you need two of them. Hmm?
Cat Johnson
#81. Choose the right employees and then set them loose.
Carlos Slim
#82. Try to be "good", you'll be judged. Try to be yourself, you'll be criticized. Therefore, choose the second option. Evil uses the "nice good people" as puppets. It appears dressed as a poor guy, telling them that he needs help ... When these people realize they have been used, it is already too late.
Paulo Coelho
#83. It is impossible for the mind to remain undisturbed by thoughts, but anyone serious about the matter can certainly permit them entry or drive them away, and although their origin does not lie entirely under our control we can choose to approve of them and to adopt them.
John Cassian
#84. We cannot stop the winter or the summer from coming. We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make them other than they are. They are gifts from the universe that we cannot refuse. But we can choose what we will contribute to life when each arrives.
Gary Zukav
#85. Men are stupid and ignorant. That is why they suffer. Instead of thinking, they believe all that they are told, all that they are taught. They choose their lords and masters without judging them, with a fatal taste for slavery.
Gabriel Chevallier
#86. Crime is a human behavior problem, not a mechanical problem. Furthermore, if firearms were not very useful for self-defense, then police wouldn't carry them. In a free country, if the government can go armed, so should the citizens, if they so choose.
Charley Reese
#87. People must not choose their neighbors; they must take the neighbors that God sends them. The neighbor is just the person who is next to you at the moment, the person with whom any business has brought you into contact.
George MacDonald
#88. I asked her why my father resisted the guards when they always won in the end. Why didn't he just save himself the pain and pay them what they wanted? She told me that sometimes, you can't choose what happens to you, but you can choose who you become because of it. That's why my father fought back.
Jessica Khoury
#89. Writers cannot choose their own mood: with them it is not always hide-tide, nor
thank Heaven!
always Storm.
Charlotte Bronte
#90. Your husband or your wife is the only person you can really choose to be your family and to have unconditional love with them.
Jessica Alba
#91. If you choose to live in solutions, the world eagerly awaits your dreams and provides every tool and opportunity you need to turn them into reality
Tony Jeary
#92. We come to love those we serve. If we choose to begin to serve the Master out of even a glimmer of faith, we will begin to know Him. We will come to know His purposes for the people we serve for Him. Even when they do not accept our offer to serve them, we will feel His appreciation if we persist.
Henry B. Eyring
#93. First you date the songs, and then you get engaged and then you marry them. They have to stand the test of time, because they are going to be yours for the next 20, 30, 40 years. So you had better choose right.
Marc Anthony
#94. It is a lie that our anger justifies our impulse to hurt or ignore our antagonists. We are to forgive to be forgiven. To wait for them to repent before we forgive and repent is to allow them to choose for us a delay which could cost us happiness here and hereafter.
Henry B. Eyring
#95. I don't want everyone to like me, and I don't choose who likes me. You have to give them the choice, give them the option.
Jean Dujardin
#96. I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it's up to me to choose to develop them.
Joyce Meyer
#97. 26The righteous should choose his friends carefully, For the way of the wicked leads them astray.
Richard G. Lee
#98. Please, for the love of all that is good:
Visit the countries you choose to defend, before you defend them.
Experience first hand the cultures you chose to defend, before you defend them.
Take part in the religions you tell others about, before you tell others about them.
Keith Hebner
#99. The power and beauty of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#100. You take souls for vegetables ... The gardener can decide what will become of his carrots but no one can choose the good of others for them.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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